The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-09-28
Live Stock Notes

Do not overfeed your sheep or place so
much food before them that they will leave
any, for they will soon learn to waste large
quantities of 1T.
The Suffolk sheep, as claimed by their
friends, have few superiors as mutton sheep.
They make extraordinary weights, and are
popular in England. They are hardy and
good grazers.
September is the best month for the fall
pigs to come in, as it gives them time to
make fair growth before cold weather sets
in. When pigs are narrowed late tn y do not
thrive unless they receive extra atten-
ton.
Young and tender heritage is greedily
eaten by all classes of stock. Weens when
Just shooting out of the ground are reIished
also. Some wee1s that are poisonous when
matured are harmless when young and
tender.
The heaviest lamb ever raised in the
United States, an Oxford, which attained
100 pounds in nine months, was fed all the
ground oats, in addition to its mothers
mix, it could eat. A twin sister reached
eighty-fve pounds in the same period.
Race horses are fed on the clean blades
of corn fodder in some stables, as it is free
from dust, The stalk Of corn is stripped
of it's blades by hand, and the blades are
then tied into small bundle, which is
hung on the stalk to cure. It never touches
the ground, and is consequently free from
dirt
There is in Monmouth County, N. j.,
COW whose record as breeder is 30 marvel
GUS that 1t is almost incredible She is a
result of a cross between the Jersey and
Ayrshire breeds and is now seven years
old. AT her first calving she produced
three calves, at her second calving three
lHao ~ hor I'd col mir al OF
her fourth two and at her fifth four calves
lin all, fifteen perfectly formed calves in
five years, at five calviDgs. and each year
81 q was bred to bull different from the
one preceding.
Cattle-raisiDg in the West has been much
like see-saw, some years up and others
down, and it is well to note that the higher
or lower the extreme years, are the reaction
always carries it to the corresponding OPP
posite. 1t will be well, therefore, for cat.
tlemen to build surely and industriously,
remembering that the longer the depres-
sion the better will be the reaction. The
cutting up of the large herds, which Will
result in a more even distribution of the
supply and obviate to q considerable ex-
tent the necessity for and possibility of
enormous shipments for but two or three
months in the year, will largely help to
bring about the reaction, and Colorado is
in the advance guard of the range coun-
tries in which this change is now taxing
plsce.-Range Journal.
The stock-raiser whose business is above
a very limited one, will find platform
scales a very judicious investment. The
time of guesswork in feeding is past; and
it is owing only to exceptionally favorable
circumstances that a reasonable profit can
be got from stock feeding conducted on
basis other than that which takes account
of food fed and the gain made therefrom.
BE who would get from stockfeeiing, the
profit lit is capable Of yielding, must make
good use of the scales. He will need to
weigh the food given the animals and to
weigh the animals once a fortnight, that
he may know what feed to give the highest
profit, or if any gives a reasonable compen-
sation. A good use of the scales will be
found when the animals are to be market.
ed. Let them be weighed in the lot, not
when they have been driven some distance,
and, as consequences, have lost weight.
The farmer who must drive his stock TO
the village to be weighed, sustains a con-
siderable loss, for which he has only him
self to blame.-Western PloWman.